Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-04-27
NO. I8.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
"A four seated hansom cab IL

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is to be brought out at Buda-Pesth.
Cairo, Egypt, is said to have one
blind person to every 20 inhabitants.
The catch Of shad in the Hudson
for the season of 1886 was ,300,9
Summer hotel men are praying for
a big war in Europe to keep people
home.
The three bullfghts in Paris have
produced the gross receipts of 205, 900
francs.
"A resident of Chester, Illinois, has
pet crow that talks quite as well as
any parrot.
The fftieth anniversary of the
founding of Michigan University occurs
this Spring.
Cornelius Vanderbilt's new milk
house Will have tiling on it which CO
over $1,000.
"A popularity OF the language of
the Sandwich Islands ia that every
word ends in vowel.
THE sight of General Bragg's left
eye IS gone and that OF the right is said
to be seriously affected.
The daughter of Governor Moon
light, of Wyoming Territory, is said to
act as his private secretary.
Susan b. Anthony Is quoted as
saying that Abraham Lincoln is the
only man she could have loved.
The ages combined OF couple
married out in Mecosta county, Mich,
the other day, foot up 157 years.
Forty thousand bamboo canes are
among the cargo of a vessel from Japan
dlscharglpg at Portland, Maine.
Music, it is thought, is likely soon
to be introduced Systematically in the
public schools of Massachusetts.
"A bill to permit the prObating of
wills during the life of testatOrs is be-
fore the Legislature Of New York.
"A balloon that will carry up 100
persons, as 1t is stated is to be feature
of the next QSS9l Paris Exposition.
Two employees appointed in 1881
by Andrew Jackson are still in the
Postal Department at Washington.
Daniel Millser, native Pennsyly-
anlan, IS dead at Van Buren, Iowa, at
the age of 1O2 years and s months.
-"Unmerchantlike Conduct" is the.
charge on which the New York Produce
Exchange IS trying one of its members.
"A native paper under tine control
OF the Hawaiian government has taken
l, to publishing column OF so in Eng
hsh.
Female models, the Magazine of
Art" declares are, with few excep-
tons, virtuous, hard working, guileless
and honest"
Queen Victoria intends. it is said,
20 purchase certain Of the French
crown jewels, which are soon to be
sold in Paris.
Western beer is now selling freely
in New York, as result OF a fight
between the saloon keepers and the
brewers pool"
The citizens OF OswegO, Kansas,
raised $1,000 recently in half a day for
the purpose of sinking shaft in
search of gas and coal.
"A man at Bismarck, ID. T., has
invented freight car time lock that
can only be unlocked at the station for
which the car is intended.
Among the inmates of the poor.
house at Kalamazoo, Michigan, is re-
ported man who rivalled Cough as a
temperance lecturer generation ago.
Experience in a Glasgow hospital
has taught DR.. J. s Marine that boiled
or fried fish is dangerous diet for
weak persons, but that steamed fish is
harmless.
10 af
that is, durIng the reign of
the circumference of the
city enclosed by walls was about
twenty miles.
"A mystery connected with the re-
ported loss of the new Japanese man
Of-war, Unebi-Kan, is that not trace
Of her or her officers and crew 600 IN
numberl has been found.
There are said 10 be six men living
IN Portsmouth, y. H.. who took part
IN the battle between the Union fleet
and the Southern ram Merrimac, at
Hampton Roads, in 1862
Wild geese and ducks have become
70 destructive a pest TO the grain fields
If Alameda, California, that the
farmers are driven to the use of lumin-
BUS scarecrOwS to drive them away.
The Plantagenet line of English
kings began with Henry III. and ended
With Richard IL. occupying the throne
" England for nearly two and One-half
that IS, from 1854 to 1889.
The highest balloon ascension on
'ecOrd is said 10 have been made In
.S52 by Mr.. Glaisher and Mr. COxwell,
.wo famous English aeronauts. They
cached an altitude of $1,000 feet, or
even miles.
Some Of the ice companies that cut
his winter on the kennebec have
housed ice "a inches thick The crop
rom that river aggregates 900, ,00O tons,
md is reported the best, as well as the
argest, ever gathered.
AN agricultural paper figures it
hat "when land is worth $50 an acre,
me glass of beer at five cents would
epresent piece Of land nine feet wide
md twelve feet long. Room enough to
Jury the whole family in"
In an auction room at Bridge
water, Massachusetts,, some days ago,
bout the time the auctioneer had gone
rom "golng" to gone" the floor
vent, carrying into the cellar 200 peo-
lie, none of whom, fortunately, were
eriously hurt.
"A Justice of the Peace in Chester,
Massachusetts,, who is Sc years old, las
ust been recommended for a term that
will make him 90 years of age when il
xpires, if he lives, and the veteran is
aid to be ''full of vitality" as yet.
"A burglar. with whom a man in
Iaurens county, Georgia, grappled
lpon being awakened some nights ago.
directed an accomplice to shoot. This
he aecomplice did, but the ball killed
he struggling intruder, who was then
ound to be a constable. The other
'arglar escaped.
The highest salary paid Methodist
Ministers in the New Hampshire Con-
erence. it is stated, is $500 (and the
lse Of a parsonage which now is paid
" one church in Manchester, and an
,ther in Lawrence Mass. y while the